WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Dick Durbin today made the following statement regarding the announced rule providing for 15,000 additional H-2B visas for temporary seasonal work during the remainder of fiscal year 2017. 

Prepared Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa

Family Leadership Summit

Des Moines, Iowa

July 15, 2017

Good morning. It’s so good to be here with all of you this morning to share in our Worship, Fellowship, and Leadership.

Q: What drives your relentless grip on the federal purse strings?

Senators first started investigating the Missouri National Guard contractor’s case in 2014

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Chuck Grassley of Iowa are calling for answers from the Missouri National Guard on what it will do to address findings that one of its contractors retaliated against contractor employee Michael Sandknop after he made disclosures that were protected under whistleblower statutes.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, senior member of the Finance Committee, and Sen.

Prepared Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa

Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee

Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration hearing on “Examining the Problem of Visa Overstays: A Need for Better Tracking and Accountability”

July 12, 2017

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Sen. Tom Cotton, Sen. Tom Udall, Sen. Martin Heinrich and Sen. Sherrod Brown today introduced bipartisan legislation to improve patient access to podiatrists in Medicaid and improve care for patients with diabetes who need therapeutic shoes via Medicare.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley said today that fall internships for college-aged Iowans are available. Applications are due Friday, July 21.

These Senate internships are available in Grassley offices in Washington, D.C., Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Sioux City and Waterloo. The fall internship program runs from August 21 to December 15.

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today wrote to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in order to ask how the Russian attorney who met with Donald Trump, Jr. at Trump Tower in June of 2016 was allowed to enter the United States.

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